If you’re currently using the Desktime beta to manage your space, start getting excited for the following great new features:Īs of last week, all new members invited to your space will be asked to create a Desktime account before viewing and accepting their invitation. His name was Henry Ford.Over the next few weeks we’ll be gradually rolling out new features for members of Desktime spaces. That company turned out to be one of the most profitable companies of the mid-twentieth century, and the boss at its helm is remembered as one of the most talented executives in American history. "Just as the eight hour day opened our way to prosperity, so the five day week will open our way to a still greater prosperity." "We know from our experience in changing from six to five days and back again that we can get at least as great production in five days as we can in six," he said. He instituted new rules, including an eight-hour work day and a five-day work week. In the mid-1920s, an executive in Michigan studying the productivity of his factory workers realized that his employees' efficiency was plummeting when they worked too many hours in a day or too many days in a week. Perhaps managing our office energy is a lost art. Instead, they take the smartest approach to managing their energy to solve tasks in efficient and creative ways. Indeed, the most productive employees don't necessarily work the longest hours. Rather than set your stop-watch for 17:00 when you get up from your desk, the more important reminder might be to get up, at all. It seems unlikely that there is one number representing the ideal amount of time for every employee in every industry to break from work. The project concluded that "workers receiving the alerts were 13 percent more accurate on average in their work than coworkers who were not reminded." In 1999, Cornell University's Ergonomics Research Laboratory used a computer program to remind workers to take short breaks. But this isn't the first observational study to show that short breaks correlate with higher productivity.
Telling people to focus for 52 consecutive minutes and then to immediately abandon their desks for exactly 1,020 seconds might strike you as goofy advice. Those 17 minutes were often spent away from the computer, said Julia Gifford at The Muse, by talking a walk, doing exercises, or talking to coworkers. The highest-performing 10 percent tended to work for 52 consecutive minutes followed by a 17-minute break. Rather than set your stop-watch for 17 minutes when you get up from your desk, the more important reminder might be to get up, at all.ĭeskTime, a productivity app that tracks employees' computer use, peeked into its data to study the behavior of its most productive workers. So what's the perfect length for a break? Seventeen minutes, according to an experiment released this week. We need breaks strategically served between our work sessions. Rather, like a runner starting to flag after a few miles, our ability to perform tasks has diminishing returns over time. But the truth about productivity for the rest of us is that more hours doesn't mean better work. Indeed, there are many perfectly productive people that go to the office early, leave late, and never seem to stop working. Many of us have a cultural image of industriousness that includes first-in-last-out workers, all-nighters, and marathon work sessions. The scientific observation underlying these nearly-too-good-to-be-true findings is that the brain is a muscle that, like every muscle, tires from repeated stress. That would require going into the office.) Working from home? Shut down your boss's rude accusations that you're too slothful to put on a pair of pants in the morning by handing him this 2013 study of Chinese call-center employees, which found that "tele-commuting" improved company performance. Studies show that long breaks from the office reboot your cognitive energy to solve big problems with the mental dexterity they deserve. Going on long vacations? You're not running away from your responsibilities. Looking at adorable pictures of kittens rolling helplessly in balls of yarn heightens our focus, and the "tenderness elicited by cute images" improves our motor function on the computer. Sometimes, productivity science seems like an organized conspiracy to justify laziness.Ĭlicking through photos of cute small animals at work? That's not silly procrastination, Hiroshima University researchers said.
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